Public Safety committee  I don't know. This is a non-death situation?

Public Safety committee  I can't tell you that. I don't know. But I know that in every case, in every police force I am aware of, including the Ontario Provincial Police, the use of a taser is treated like the use of a firearm would be. In other words, a report must be filed, so I think there would be da

Public Safety committee  I can ask that it be shared. It wouldn't come from our office, but I can certainly undertake to see if there's information that could be shared with the committee.

Public Safety committee  Can I add something? I think in Canada we are fortunate in that we enjoy a coroner or medical examiner system. As you know, there is a variety of systems across the country, but all of them have one thing in common, and that is that they are governmental; they are at either the t

Public Safety committee  And they are elected. I was just going to say that. They often are part-time, and they are in an elected position, so they may be more vulnerable to that sort of litigation. I think in Canada there would be much more resiliency about dealing with that, because I couldn't agree m

Public Safety committee  I'm unaware of any.

Public Safety committee  That's fair.

Public Safety committee  I'm not an expert on the use of force, so I can't say.

Public Safety committee  Because of the insensitivity to pain of the person in excited delirium, neither the pepper spray nor painful techniques will generally work. I would go so far as to say that if the taser were used to inflict pain, it probably would not be effective.

Public Safety committee  To produce neuromuscular incapacitation. It simply produces a state where briefly the person can't move, and that allows control to be gained.

Public Safety committee  Like in two of the cases in Ontario that were described earlier. In both cases the taser failed to incapacitate the individual, and they were ultimately shot.

Public Safety committee  I would say yes, and again, with all the provisos that you put forward--recognizing the risks and requiring careful accounting of the use of the taser in the right circumstances. And as I say, it's very far down that use of force continuum. In my view, it should never be used in

Public Safety committee  Absolutely not.

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  It's a syndrome as opposed to a disease, which has a well-defined cause. It's a constellation of symptoms, which you've heard described repeatedly, and it's much more referred to in the forensic and law enforcement community than it is in the medical community. There's been lobby